Brògeal – Tuesday Paper Club review

Let’s bless the mavericks. Let’s celebrate the rogues. Let’s take time to salute the people who we would never dare to be, but aspire to being all the same. In such a regimented, dull, world where the odds are stacked against pretty much everyone being happy – especially if you refuse to fit in – then let’s give Brògeal the kind of welcome the machine would hate them getting.

A quintet from Falkirk, rather than stand around playing drab melodies and occasionally fingering a synth, they’ve chosen instead to put their combined energies into a brand of folk punk which is hard to resist. Tuesday Paper Club musically is riotous and irreverent, with echoes inevitably of The Pogues, but there’s some canny songwriting here too, an acknowledgement that Shane MacGowan and co. were at their best when seemingly down and out.

Lovers of ballads in the grand tradition will be in their element with Scarlett Red and the bluesy Apples And Leaves, but those here for high jinks will be even more delighted with the titular opener, One For The Ditch and The Last Boatman’s spaghetti-Western thrash. Let’s celebrate those who took the other fork in the road; Brògeal have followed the heart and not the head – and on Tuesday Paper Club they live in one of the most gloriously enjoyable moments of 2025.

Read a full review here.